This week’s reading focuses on Essay 2 and the two student examples given to us on Blackboard. Essay 2 asks us to write a visual cultural critique and thus can be about subjects like class, gender, race, age, etc. and can offer important lessons about all of them.
We ask you to read the two Essay 2 examples provided on Blackboard then answer the following questions:
- What aspects of cultural critique are you writing about?
- What theory are you going to use to frame the subject and why?
- Is there anything from the two essays that you particularly liked and were thinking about incorporating in your paper? Conversely, are there things to avoid?
As a reminder, here are the theories that we are using in Essay 2:
- Roland Barthes’ theory of Denotative and Connotative meanings
- Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism and the Other
- Laura Mulvey’s theory of the Male Gaze
We also invite you to share the challenges you’re having in writing this paper. It might lead to new ideas/perspectives about your subject that you could then incorporate in your paper, and we’re all for creating stronger papers.
With that, we hope you all stay safe and have an easy time navigating the rest of the semester!
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